Matt Shaver wrote: > On Sun, 09 Jun 2013 20:01:45 -0500 > Jon Elson <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> David Bagby wrote: >> >>> These same source files also contain comments that claim the >>> contents of the file are licensed under a GPL license. Counsel >>> tells me those comments are at best wishful thinking. For better or >>> worse, no matter what anyone may want or wish, asserting a GPL >>> license status for the NIST code does not make the existence of GPL >>> license conditions true. >>> >> Great! Thanks for clarifying this contradiction! It is definitely >> not good news for this >> project, but it is at least good to know what the status of this is! >> > > I don't know Jon, this may not be bad news either. I could live with > public domain. It's the deal I've already got :) Does it hurt you or > Pico Systems in any way? Would it change your plans for the future? > If public domain doesn't interfere with our publishing our version of LinuxCNC, then this is good news! I was under the impression that having all these license conflicts made it impossible to put LinuxCNC on some distros or something. Since we need an RT kernel, we can't really be distributed on stock Ubuntu distros anyway, so I never fully understood what this conflict was all about.
No, certainly public domain doesn't hurt ME in any way at all! As far as I know, having my FPGA code private in no way conflicts with having LinuxCNC open. All the work I've done on drivers (which is significantly picked from other's work, anyway) is open, and that is just fine, as it is almost perfectly useless without LinuxCNC. (Although it could be used as a guide to write drivers for another control system using my boards, but that would be fine, too!) The only thing that would change my plans is if LinuxCNC imploded for some reason. So, all we need to do is correct this conflict in all the old NIST files, and leaving them "public domain" is OK in combination with all the xGPLx parts of LinuxCNC? That would remove a LOT of files from this conflict. I know there was somebody a while ago violently against changing the licensing of the code he contributed to LGPL or GPLv<something>, but now I don't remember the particulars. I suspect you do. Jon ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ How ServiceNow helps IT people transform IT departments: 1. A cloud service to automate IT design, transition and operations 2. Dashboards that offer high-level views of enterprise services 3. A single system of record for all IT processes http://p.sf.net/sfu/servicenow-d2d-j _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
